Federal wildfire researchers say most regions in Canada could be facing a long, hot, fiery summer.

Wildfire starts and the amount of land burned were below average for the first few weeks of the season, but dry weather is turning things around, said Richard Carr, a fire research analyst with Natural Resources Canada.

"We've had a long, lingering winter and a bit of a slow start to the fire season, but the numbers are higher than the same time last year."

Cap that off with a deranged government whose focus is to expedite the extraction and export of as much high-carbon, toxin-laden sludge petroleum as possible as quickly as possible and it's pretty easy to get overwhelmed by the nihilistic lunacy.

Two provinces have already had their first evacuations of the year. About 40 people in Crutwell, Sask., have had to flee their homes at least twice. Seven families in Lac du Bonnet, Man., also had to leave.

Manitoba has counted 119 fires so far. Last year at this time, the figure was 27 and the year before that it was 58.

Nationally, the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre says Canada is about 100 fires ahead of the 10-year average for early May.

Although some parts of the country are flooding, much of the forested area remains dry, said Carr.

"It's pretty dry across that whole stretch, right from British Columbia to western Ontario."

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Let's hope the universe hits the target this year and burns Mordor off the face of the Earth. Let the piddly 100k workers in the abominable industry get real jobs. Let the plutocrats and oligarchs earn real sustainable wealth. Burn baby burn!

BTW, why does Alberta need Trans Mountain pipeline when Trump approved Keystone XL? How much filth are they planning on extracting? All 4.7 trillion barrels? GTFO!

@ Anon, they want to move as much of it as possible just as quickly as possible. They're terrified of high-carbon bitumen becoming a "stranded asset." Hence the desperation to get this stuff out of the ground and into some ship's hold before the sky falls down.

Yes, that's part of Lovelock's Gaia hypothesis, NPoV. It must have been a decade ago that I decided to take a course in environmental geology at Vancouver Island U. I had to be interviewed by the professor who wanted to know why I was interested in his course. I mentioned Lovelock. The prof said at first the Gaia business was greeted with a measure of skepticism but with time the consensus turned and it was accepted as largely true.

I think it's simpler than that.Someone stands to gain or lose a lot of money on this ,Trans Mountain project,there is way too much fury at those that wish to stop the project than is reasonable.I suspect that Canada Pensions who were approached by Trans Canada Pipe dream could have bought into the scam!!On matters of State I often start with , who benefits??It will not be the taxpayer..